DIYs & Mods

3D printing and fab labs are cool, but what this guy can do with a bandsaw (and you cannot, so don't even try) is patently awesome. Video after the jump.

This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself.

A great idea for getting around in the snow, for which Fritz Rice of Seattle's Dutch Bicycle Co. generously credits fixie hipsters.

An inventive YouTube user shows that it doesn't take cinematic digital effects to create the morphing inkblot mask of Alan Moore's nasty antihero, Rorschach. Video after the jump.

When it comes to Christmas, this Xmas-tree rocket launch proves that hacking is the gift that keeps on giving. Video after the jump.

2010 is the year fabrication technology and 3D printing came to the masses—or at least to Brooklyn. But is this a good thing?

Make the holidays bright for your favorite hacker without spending any money at all. Well, maybe you'll spend a little bit of money—as they say, it's the thought that counts.

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space.

An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.

An ancient device for predicting the occurrence of solar eclipses gets a fun, lucid reboot—in interlocking plastic blocks.